For the last 2 weeks or so, I've been staring at and thinking about the UI to my new startup's flagship product. Beyond the Beyond pointed me towards a piece by the Windows Phone 7 metro design language. So I Googled up some examples. And I find this really beautiful website.
Now, if there's something I enjoy more then complaining about computers, it's complaining about Microsoft. Not only that, I've been staring at websites for the last +16 years. Rarely has a website design made me go "woah, yes!" Black/white/grey/orange? Liberal use of whitespace? Visible clutter approaching zero? WOAH! YES!
What's more, the videos of the Metro design language I've seen make it look really nice. I would call it what happens when you mix Helvetica, iOS and the minimalism of the 1972 Munich Olympic pictograms.
PS: I was going to post a link to Apple's iOS 4 page, but I had to spend a few minutes refusing all the cookies they wanted to set. Fuck 'em.
2 comments:
Watch what you say about Microsoft!!
You are about to become related by marriage to a very senior Microsoft engineer!
First off any very senior Microsoft engineer is going to be more aware of Microsoft's failings then me.
Secondly, wait what marriage? Who? To whom?
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